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6 posts tagged “imap”.
- 12 min read
Open-source email clients and webmail on Linux: what to pair
For Linux developers and small teams, Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail and NeoMutt are ways to use a mailbox; Roundcube and SnappyMail put that workflow in a browser; SOGo adds groupware. Choose the interface and backend together, and distinguish full webmail from MailKite Server's application-mail console.
- 13 min read
Build a Linux email provider with MailKite integrations
Building a Linux email provider means owning tenant identity, DNS, mailbox storage, and delivery failures. This guide helps backend teams choose an open-source stack, then run an adapter that reads their own IMAP mailbox and sends a notification through MailKite without moving inbound mail to the cloud.
- 12 min read
Linux email servers with Node.js: SMTP, IMAP, and APIs
Connect Node.js to Linux email servers through SMTP, IMAP, or HTTP. Compare the integration boundaries, then run a local MIME round trip with an attachment and envelope-based ticket routing.
- 12 min read
Linux email servers with Python: SMTP, IMAP, and APIs
For Python backend developers, open-source Linux email servers integrate through protocols, not shared implementation languages. This tutorial compares SMTP, IMAP, REST, and JMAP, then runs a local send-and-receive pipeline with durable cursors and a hosted MailKite SDK alternative.
- 12 min read
Linux IMAP mail servers: choose by mailbox behavior
Dovecot and Cyrus fit conventional Linux mailbox services, Stalwart combines IMAP with SMTP and JMAP, and WildDuck exposes mailbox management through an HTTP API. MailKite Server offers a narrower application-address view. For developers choosing or migrating an IMAP server, the useful comparison is folder behavior, identity, filtering, storage ownership, and the workflows clients actually need.
- 3 min read
MailKite Server: our SMTP + IMAP edges are now open source
The Haraka-based MX and submission edges and the IMAP server that power MailKite are now AGPL on GitHub — self-host the whole stack, point our hosted MX at your box, or connect the same web console to MailKite Cloud.